THE MUST TRY LIST Song Fish Head Eat First! 食之為鮮 A Tale of Two Brothers Once upon a time, there was a man who ran a very successful restaurant serving traditional Cantonese style food. This man, Mr Chai Kok Hoong,
Serangoon Eat Uncle Lee’s Eating House: Yummy sand skin chicken I think the challenge for anyone entering the zi char business is to be able to come up with one or two signature dishes with
Toa Payoh Hong Kong Hong Kong Style Kitchen (港式小炒): Cheap and Good Zi Char Cheap and reasonably good zi char food. You can’t really complain when the steamed grouper costs only $15 and the fish handpicked by the chef
Seafood White Beehoon Fish Head Curry Hong Yun Seafood: Seafood White Bee Hoon Dry! This version of white beehoon is quite different from the wet version we are all familiar with in a similar way that wet hokkien mee
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs Alexandra Village HC Star Yong Kwang BBQ Seafood: Rising Star I remember my first encounter with the BBQ Stingray. It was in a little coffee-shop in Teban Gardens in 1987. Before that, I don’t think
THE MUST TRY LIST Heritage Hawkers Joo Heng Restaurant: Cantonese Style Comfort Food Joo Heng has been famous for the longest time and it was one of the first zi chars which blogged about in 2006 when I
Next Gen Hawkerpreneurs THE MUST TRY LIST KEK Zi Char Burgers: Introducing the Sotong BLurger! Behold the “Sotong BLurger! — Eat oredi sure blur like sotong!” The Sotong BLurger is basically deep fried calamari rings bathed in a creamy salted
Chinese (Non-Hawker) THE MUST TRY LIST Chui Xiang Kitchen: Wok Power! Discovering places like Chui Xiang Kitchen is really what this blog is all about. I really like these small eateries where the owner is also
Zi Char - Fish Head Bee Hoon THE MUST TRY LIST An Ji Crispy Beef Noodles and Fish Head Bee Hoon! I am sure that readers who grew up during the time when sang meen was really popular would have a pavlovian response to the photo
Assam Fish Head Fish Head Curry Wangji Seafood Zi Char: Another one for the list This week’s recommendation came from Francis Andre who wrote in to alert me to this hidden gem in Sims Drive serving cheap and good food.
Zi Char - Crabs Crab Files Ponggol Seafood: Back where it began! Ponggol Seafood was founded by Mr Ting Chong Teng in 1969. At the time, he was working as a foreman at a sauce factory and
Sin Ming Thai Taste of Thailand: Thai Zi Char Thai style Zi Char was quite the rage in the 90’s. I remember a particular Thai Zi Char place in Bedok where I used to
